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  <Title>Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web</Title>
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have described a multilingual version of Columbia Newsblaster, a system that runs daily offering users an accessible interface to online news browsing. The multilingual version of the system incorporates two varieties of machine translation, one for clustering, and one for translation of documents for summarization.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Existing summarization methods have been applied to translated text, with plans for an evaluation of the current method, and incorporation of summarization techniques specific to translated documents. The system presents a platform for further multilingual summarization experiments and user-oriented studies.</Paragraph>
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